European personalities from politics, culture and academia meeting in London for a two-day event expressed their support for Argentina’s claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and signed a declaration calling on the UK to resume discussions for a peaceful and definitive solution to the ongoing dispute.

Richard Gott, is a former Latinamerican affairs correspondent for The Guardian and heads the Group’s UK Chapter

Representatives of the 18 European Pro-Dialogue Group calls for dialogue

Headed by Foreign minister Hector Timerman and ambassador Alicia Castro, the event at the Argentine embassy took off on Wednesday with the attendance of 42 members from the so-called 18 European Groups Pro Dialogue in the Malvinas Question.

The spirit of the meeting clearly oriented towards the Argentine position nevertheless acknowledged that Argentina and UK are both members of the UN, democracies, with a long tradition of friendship and cooperation, plus the fact that “they now coincide as members of the UN Security Council”

The day started with a draft presentation of the declaration which was read by British writer Richard Gott, a former Latinamerican affairs correspondent for The Guardian and who heads the Group’s UK Chapter.

The document recalls that the Falklands/Malvinas controversy dates back to 1833 when “Great Britain usurped the Islands from Argentina” and later evolved with the UN 1965 resolution in which by an overwhelming vote it was decided that “both countries should find a peaceful solution” to the dispute.

Further on the draft states that the Malvinas Islands are seen by Argentina and the Latinamerican region as a ‘colonial enclave’ besides the fact that from 1965 until 1982, --when the Argentine military invasion--, there were sovereignty negotiations between London and Buenos Aires, including the possible transfer of the Malvinas Islands and a possible joint administration.

Likewise the declaration argues that Latinamerica is a zone of peace and the British military escalade is “a matter of concern for all the countries in the region”.

Furthermore the UK continues with unilateral activities in the disputed area of the South Atlantic, exploration and exploitation of renewable and non renewable natural resources in clear contravention of UN resolutions. It adds that “this includes the growing militarization of the zone by the UK which has converted the Malvinas Islands in one of the most militarized areas of the planet”.

The document also points out that when Argentina lost the war in 1982 and the military government collapsed the democratic governments that followed have unanimously rejected war to recover the Islands. This was enshrined in the 1994 constitution saying that the sovereignty dispute must be resolved in a peaceful way respecting the interests of the inhabitants of the Islands.

And since the return of democracy in December 1983, Argentina is no longer a menace for the UK of the Malvinas Islands. In continental Argentina lives a great community of British descendents perfectly integrated and Argentina has reiterated its commitment to dialogue and the UN continues to call on both sides to resume negotiations. All indicates that the UK should re-establish the pre-1982 dialogue.

“But the British government refuses to dialogue”.

Finally the representatives of the 18 European Pro-Dialogue Group calls for dialogue and to show the world their commitment to peace and respect for International law.

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Not true. We agreed to meet to discuss bi lateral issues with you with the exception of the Falklands which we advised they Islands recognised legislative government needed to be present. Argentina refused to meet us which was clearly captured in news articles all over the globe.

2 Likewise the declaration argues that Latinamerica is a zone of peace and the British military escalade is “a matter of concern for all the countries in the region”.

We have a presence in our territory namely the Falklands simply because of the historic acts and on-going military posturing of Argentina. Let us not forget the comments made recently from a senior member in Argentina’s military stating the only thing stopping an invasion (apart form the fact the military effort in Argentina is either sinking or woefully behind the times) was the British presence on the islands. Further to this is brazils etc growth of their armed and naval presences not also a militarisation of the region?

3 with the attendance of 42 members from the so-called 18 European Groups Pro Dialogue in the Malvinas Question.

I respect their people’s views. They are entitled to them in a free and democratic country. But they are a minority and do not speak for most people as has been shown in many, many surveys, governmental talks etc. Please note that not a single senior politician, Leader of a country etc from the EU was present or has stated there agreement.

What will it take for Argintia and the rest of LA to realise that the Islands are not up for negotiation unless (and in the very unlikly event) the islanders ask for it to be. Instead I would ask these countiress and Argintina especialy to focus in on their country, their ecanomic issues and ongoing poverty / humanitarion issues at home. Sort that out first then come back to the table to ask for trilateral talks towards these self goverend overseas territories.

Both Richard Gott and Jeremy Torbyn are the British equivalents of cipayos and are nothing more than attention seekers. Furthermore, if you stopped a man in the street and ask him who they are I reckon 999 out of 1,000 persons just would not know who they are.

So if the other 16 individuals gathered by the trolly dolly are well known and influential then Timerman's conference is a loser. It is pathetic the attempts these people use to gather support - it is a tragicomedy if ever there was one.

Never heard of these, so called High profile European delegates. Certainly never heard of Gott, sounds like he writes the rubbish that 99%of us take one look at and consign to the waste paper bin. The other 1%, well they are entitled, unlike some people living on a peaceful Island in the South Atlantic, to their own opinion.

Must admit, it slightly hard to believe, that one of these groups, shed their invariable support for a minority group.

Where they off to next I wonder? down the road to the Ecuadorian Embassy perhaps?

All indicates that the UK should re-establish the pre-1982 dialogue.
Oh I think that ship has sailed as part of an invasion force in 1982!

As for ”the most militarized areas of the planet”, these guys need to visit the North-South Korean border, Kashmir, the Indian-China border, Armenia-Azerbaijan border and the Taiwan Straits. Perhaps we should pass the hat around and help them visit those regions on a fact finding mission.

Would be interesting to know whether Corbyn as a Labour MP agrees that the Islanders don't exist and have no right to self-determination. And in supporting dialogue was he disappointed that Timerman then refused to attend the talks with Hague as offered?

Of course they re going to side with argentina they are a selected audience ffs,
the decision to side with argentina was already made before arriving in UK.
i dare say The Falklands or The UK could find a selective audience in europe too if it wasnt so childish and irrelevent,
it means absolutely nothing they are not the UN and more importantly not the ICJ.

I have just sent a rather annoyed letter to Mr Leyden. He is meant to be a representative on European affairs yet consorts with these twits . I wouldn't mind normally as our politicians here in Ireland are daft anyway but he should have been here for the very important late night votes on Irelands banking system. I am asking him if he understands the history of the Islands or merely listened to Mr Timerman. I also asked how he had gotten to the meeting, if he charged the Irish government for travel expenses then he was technically on official business and not personal. Seeing as his party is not in power I do not see how that could be.

A crowd of sycophants were assembled with a previously agreed agenda. Anyone of us could have written a press release on this weeks ago with the inevitablewe are all in agreement with the conclusions of this meeting which was decided months ago 

Today, in a staggering display of poor judgement, 2 vaguely known and 40 unknown people surrendered time and dignity to a limp propaganda campaign organised by the Argentine government.

The botched attempt at gathering worldwide support failed at the first hurdle, when it emerged that all attending came only for the free lunch, and didn't realise they would be paid in pesos for capitulating on their right to be taken seriously.

Bitterness turned to action, as one of the hard-to-recognise eco-wattage luminaries demonstrated rigid moral fibre, and asked for seconds of pudding.

Proceedings continued in a tense stand-off between Mr Timerman and the group, until Mr Timerman started arguing with a hat stand shouting wibble wibble and thrice wibble to you my liege!!!

The delegates left cautiously at this point, hugging each other for safety, with heads hanging somewhere near the floor in shame, whilst Mr Timerman and Ms Castro delivered the pre-written press release heralding harmony and pre-determined triumph.

It wasn't quite what we expected. On many levels, quoted one of the participants on condition of continuing to be an anonymous non-descript.

Among the distinguished personalities figure UK’s Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Gott; International Law jurist Sophie Thonon from France; Irish Senator Terry Leyden and Dutch Senator Theo Van Boven.  - as well as 13 passers by they gathered from the street outside with the promise of a free lunch.

Nah, they promised him a seat on the Central Committee of the newly founded state of the Argentine Socialistia Rupublica of Los Malvinas. With a special portfolio to develope and oversee their first five year plan.

@1-25 I'm really surprised and disappointed at the comments on here. For instance, Richard Gott is a moderately well-known super-wanker. He made his name some years back by writing an article suggesting that Britain could no longer afford to keep the Falkland Islands. Being a Guardian writer, he couldn't waste time doing any research. As a result, he forgot to take account of 265 years of British settlement, a close call on whether Britain went to war with Spain over them, two ejections of argie trespassers, 255 British lives, the fact that the Islands are self-supporting and their defence only costs 0.3% of Britain's defence budget. Britain IS the UN-mandated Administering Authority. Charged with guiding the country in good governance and to independence. When the Islanders wish. There is NO mandate for the Islands to be handed over to some third-rate third world colonialist non-democratic state with pretensions.

@9. Don't be so sure. I'm sure that the Mutual Validation Society statement somewhere says the the Czechs, Poles, Danes and Belgians don't have a right to selfdetermination. By the end of the meetings they'd probably sign anything just to get Hector and Alicia to shut up and let them go home.

@30. No doubt he distinguishes between big-P People's rights and the little-p people's right to have their necks stepped on in the name of the big-P People. That's how the game is played :-/

Richard Gott worked for The Guardian . What more can one say .It is like asking the editor of the Daily Worker , while it existed and communist , to write an objective article on the aristocracy ! I presume that democracy is all about freedom of speech but does that include mouthing nonsense .

Well, it must also be pointed out that among the list of europeans that gathered to meet with Timerman, several of them are actually Argentine. Victoria Torres of Cologne University, Augustin Blanco Bazan who is listed as being from the UK delegation but is an Argentine who works in the International Maritime Organisation based in London, Dr Francisco Panizza - an Argentine lecturer based in the LSE, Mónica González, an Argentine who now lives in Spain and is a town councillor; Lucrecia Escudero - an argentine who is currently works at Lille University; Barbara Moreels - or should I say Barbara Moreels de Ortiz? I suppose they have had such trouble in finding people to be in the delegation, they had to pack it with Argentine nationals and pass them off as Europeans. Well, I guess in a way they are, as most Argentines are of European descent.

The book doesn't portray Latin America as a victim of the US or the Old World; these three authors challenge intelligently the populist ideologies and myths of the Left (and the Right) that have done so much damage over all the Spanish speaking countries south of the USA.

Having met many Perfect Latin American Idiots, I understand why they are so enraged by this book;
the PLAIdiots are perfectly described and they don't look pretty.

The book gives a cruelly accurate insight into ‘Latin American issues’, exploding the behaviours and attitudes of the Marxist and nationalist-leaning ‘intellectuals’.
These writers shoot straight at their hearts, and they make no apologies.

With Bolivarian mystique seeping through so many South American governments, it is time the book was read or re-read by those who try to speak on behalf of the LatAms.

What a spectacular fail... trying to pass off Argentines as Europeans. How stupid are these people. Surely they could have managed to find 42 European Anglophobes...no wait...it was Alicia Castro who was organising it...

I feel the sudden urge to do a full place of birth/political affiliations analysis of the list and email every journalist I've heard of...

As soon as I noticed this when I saw the webpage, I tweeted an Argentine journo if they were aware of this, and after asking if I meant the Argentine delegation that came with Timerman. I pointed out that no, I meant the group of 42 - not heard anything since...... mind you she was on Newsnight spouting off with the usual propaganda a year ago.

[Jeremy] Corbyn is an MP sponsored by the UNISON trade union, and is a committed anti-fascist having spoken at the Unite Against Fascism and Barking and Dagenham TUC anti British National Party rally in December 2001 [6] and also speaking at the organisations annual conference in 2007 attacking the record of the media and calling for a No Platform of the BNP

So what is an ardent anti-fascist doing supporting a Peronist-Hitlerist government that behaves in a fascist, corporatist and authoritarian manner? Seriously, I wonder what sizable thing they have on him to make basically him go against all the 'values' he professes to have.

Is he aware that the Front for Victory use the rhetoric of ethnic cleansing and expansionism?

Who are these people, what was the point if the exercise. I'm not sure what you can read into the opinions of a hand picked audience with an anti-UK agenda, what would you expect them to say?
Absolutely zero reaction from the UK government and nothing achieved.

Oh this is hysterical, Argentina's European fan club turns out to be 95% Argentines & a few loonies & even the groups they are in have been fabricated. I'm pissing myself, poor timerman & friends are really scraping the bottom of the propaganda barrel these days.

According to Telam they're well known people representing 18 different groups from around Europe.

a) I previously didn't know any of them.
b) they don't seem to be representing any groups.
c) excluding the clearly argentine stooges, if these left-wing 'representatives' from the UK are 'new labour', this proves my point about this new paradigm in socialism actually being thinly-veiled fascism.

One of them is sponsored by UNISON, of all things. Do the people paying money into this union know that the money is being used to support a pro-argentine view on ethnic cleansing of the islands.

He's also involved in Amnesty International, which is enough to make me stop any direct debits.Those people should be ashamed of supporting pro-ethnic cleansing Front for Victory, and should know better.

Bet UK colonialism and violence, and does not meet international law. Argentina commitment to dialogue (UN, OAS, CELAC, UNASUR, MERCOSUR) and international law.

As time passes and you get to know better the origin of the conflict, the cause Malvinas sum increasingly sympathies and accessions for Argentina. Even within the domestic public opinion in the UK. Just look at any news report that specializes in issues of racism, colonialism and imperialism in the 21st century.
The specificity of the Malvinas is that the United Kingdom occupied the islands by force in 1833, expelled the original population and did not allow their return, thus violating the territorial integrity of Argentina. Therefore, the possibility remains of the principle of self-determination, as its exercise by the islanders, cause the disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of Argentina. Backs this Resolution 1514 (XV) Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in the sixth paragraph states that Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is right are still a crude colonial power in decline”.

Evidenced by the fact that the committee considers UN decolonization to the Falkland Islands as a colony. Of the 16 cases of colonialism in the world, 10 are for the UK they are: Anguilla, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Monserrat Island, Pitcairn Island and St. Helena Island.
Just look at any web page concerning the decolonization committee of United Nations refers to are a colony.

@59 Raul, 'world public opinion' isn't synonymous with 'a bunch of Argentines pretending to represent places in Europe and a pro-USSR journalist desperate for a meal'. Your own representative was asked to join in talks with the FIG and FCO but he refused because of the conditions that he wanted to impose over the meeting.

That makes you angry and bitter, we can see it. We can see your hands getting all sweaty. You don't like the lies that come out of your government, because you know they lie to you. So just admit it, they lie to you, right?

I'd heard of Corbyn back from my days of chasing after the loony left set
(back when I was in Uni the Tory hacks had more money to buy beer but the Labour hacks had better looking women, I'd joined both until they both found out and threw me out. The joys of being young...)

He used to (and probably still does) write a column for the Morning Star (formerly the Daily Worker - the tabloid of the British Communist Party). He still seems to be keeping the red flag flying, and comrade Hugo seems to be his current best pal.

I don't know how you fool the opinion of the world. For a start, unless you are in some sort of brainbashed nazi state, people tens to have varied opinions. For another thing people should have their own opinions, even if they are foolish.

If you really mean that the facts cannot be hidden from the world than good, that's you buggered then.

The document also points out that when Argentina lost the war in 1982 and the military government collapsed the democratic governments that followed have unanimously rejected war to recover the Islands. This was enshrined in the 1994 constitution saying that the sovereignty dispute must be resolved in a peaceful way respecting the interests of the inhabitants of the Islands.”

Would any of our Argentinian friends explain how their government intends to respect the interests of the inhabitants of the island when they say they wont talk to them and they have no right to self-determination?

You have become deluded by Argentine propaganda. The same propaganda that INDEC puts out when it states that Argentine inflation is running at 10.8%. The same lies that have Argentina in 102nd place in the World's Transparency Index. 102nd place - most people can't even name 102 countries:
cpi.transparency.org/

Since Britain had claimed the Falklands in 1765 and Vernet had permission from Britain to be on the Falklands for business purposes when he was made Argentine governor - this was an illegal act. Although the British asked the Argentine garrison to leave the majority of settlers stayed under the British flag. Of the 5 that returned to Argentina - they had only been on the islands a few weeks. Then in 1850 Argentina signed the 'Convention of Settlement' peace treaty with Britain. The purpose of the treaty was to restore friendship and to settle ANY outstanding differences. It did. Argentina didn't make another sovereignty claim until 1941 - under international law sovereignty claims are considered defunct if there is a gap of 50 years or more between claims. 1849 - 1941.

I'll leave you with the words of the Secretary General of the UN. When speaking to an Argentine newspaper about the forthcoming Falklands referendum Ban Ki-Moon said, quote: 'The impression is that people who are living under certain conditions should have access to certain level of capacities so that they can decide on their own future.'

So there you have it. Argentina has no legal nor moral claim just hot air used to detract the gullible away from political and economic ineptness back home.

The document also points out that when Argentina lost the war in 1982 and the military government collapsed the democratic governments that followed have unanimously rejected war to recover the Islands.

Why are they handing out war medals for the war then? and still celebrating the war?

Completely meaningless: a self selected group of left leaning worthies think there should be negotiations.

About the only one I have heard of is Corbyn. Reputedly the most left wing Labour MP, he is a a supporter of an united Ireland, a past chair of CND etc etc etc. Sadly predictable that he would jump on any anti-UK bandwagon.

Raul has admitted that the Falklands are British, and I quote his words.  When you go to war and win, I think Brits of all people would agree, any territorial gains stand Thanks RAUL you are a star. By your remarks you accept that the FALKLANDS are BRITISH.

I can't really get my head round this so can anyone explain what would happen.

If the UK even vaguely ever looked like giving into Argentina, the Falklanders would hold a referendum and declare independence.

Where exactly does that leave Argentina's claim to only using peaceful means? Are they going to invade, or lay seige and starve the Islanders out? I don't see how they can ever take control of the Falkands without force UNLESS they start being nice.

Is claiming to be peaceful some sort of play on words? Because I do not think leaving the mines there is very peaceful (but they claim that is OK as they see it as Argentinian territory), and attacking tourist operators' property not peaceful (although they are not directly attacking the Falklanders).

So, as I asked, can anyone (including Argintinian imperialists) explain how they would expect it to play out??

So, as I asked, can anyone (including Argintinian imperialists) explain how they would expect it to play out??”

they would make a lot of noise, stamp their feet, cry, wail, bitch & moan, make lots of passionate speeches, lie, cheat and re-write history and hope that somebody with some political or military muscle actually sorts it out for them... because they are incapable of doing so themselves.

Of the 16 cases of colonialism in the world, 10 are for the UK they are: Anguilla, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Monserrat Island, Pitcairn Island and St. Helena Island.
So numbnuts if all these islands held a referendum same as the Falkland Islands would you care if they all voted to remain BOT's and therefore removed from the decolonization list, of course not you wouldn't give a shit. I wish they would and then you'd stop spouting off about said list, it's called self determination ie THEY DECIDE, so get over it !!!!! Why don't you spout off about Dutch and French overseas territories?

CFK will be in prison within 20 years, she can ask to share her cell with Timmerman and they can reminisce on the good times when it seemed possible that the Falklands would become part of their new colonial empire....

I was in an antique shop today which specialises in antique maps - in the famous Portobello Road in London. I was shown a French map from 1788 of the Falkland Islands - all details were in the French language and the islands were variously called the Middenland Islands, the Falkland Islands and les Isles Malouines. The place names were in English and French and there was no reference AT ALL to any Spanish connection. Apparently, Alicia Castro was in the shop several weeks ago and when she was shown the map she allegedly claimed it was a fake. Of course, the proprietor of the shop is an expert in the field and guarantees the veracity of the map.

@59 Crawled out from under your stone again, slug? I'll contribute to your education. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_sovereignty
Notice any possibility of acquisition by inheritance? So do tell us how argieland acquired any right to the Falkland Islands? Your government of crooks knows this. It's why it doesn't dare take the matter to the ICJ. It would be laughed out of Strasbourg. Just as your foreign minister is being laughed out of London. Thanks for proving that your country is full of tossers. And cowardly tossers at that.

You might also like to read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uti_possidetis
Remember the 1982 Falklands War? Remember who was in possession of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands when your cowards surrendered?

As is well known Richard Gott was a KGB agent in Santiago during Salvador Allende's failed attempts to establish a Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Chile.
Some of comrade Gott's (codenamed RON) fifth columnist activities in Chile
are briefly described in:
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD:
The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, NY, Basic Books, 1999, p. 427.

@15 Calaras
O yes the boyo from Roscommon alias Senator Terry Leyden (Fionna Fail) Did you get a reply from him? Was it in English or Irish? Perhaps a few awkward questions should be asked of him in the Dail or at least in the Irish press
In 1998 Mr Leyden was an official observer at the Bosnia Herzgovenenia elections. Perhaps Falklanders you should invite him to observe your referendum. If he turns down the invitation it will show him up for the charlatan he is. If he does come he might even learn a thing or two about the way democracy works in the Falkland Islands

Upon checking the two Belgian members of Tinman's European delegation, we find that Bart Vonck is a translator (particularly of the Spanish poet Lorca's work) and is a self-confessed green socialist. Barbara Moreels was born as Barbara Ortiz in Antwerp (and changed her name to Moreels in 2000 by deed poll). She is President of the Belgo Ibero Americana Association, based in Antwerp.
Neither of these two people hold any offical office of State or represent Belgium in any capacity and it is questionable whether they know anything about the true story of the Falklands. My guess is that they were offered a free jolly to London - all expenses paid out of CFKs slush fund.

You folks should read the comments under the timmershylock articles in La Nacion. He's basically getting abuse from all sides.

Forgive the translation, but one commenter quite rightly says of him The man of little talent occupying high positions resembles small statues placed on large pedestals: insignificance is more evident.

'Argentina says British plans for Falklands has 'strong smell of oil'
The Argentine foreign minister has said that British plans for the Falkland Islands have a strong smell of oil.
Hector Timerman, who is on a week long trip to the UK, accused Britain of not moving its posture by one iota and using the islanders to justify its own intransigence.
What I sense in the British position is a strong smell of oil, Mr Timerman told Radio del Plata on Thursday.
Britain authorised oil prospecting around the Falkland Islands in 2010, with several British companies taking the rights.
One of these companies, Desire Petroleum, estimated that a potential 3.5 billion barrels of oil and nine trillion cubic feet of natural gas could lie within the Falklands' territorial waters, potentially worth at least £25 billion.
If the predictions are accurate, it would make the 8,000 residents of Falkland Islands significantly wealthier.
Mr Timerman believes it is Argentina, rather than the Falkland Islanders, that should benefit from this wealth.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Timerman said: I think they are using the people living in the islands for political [purposes] and to have access to oil and natural resources which belong to the Argentine people. He added: The Falkland Islanders do not exist. What exists is British citizens who live in the Islas Malvinas.
Mr Timerman turned down the opportunity for talks with his British counterpart William Hague on Monday, once he learnt two members of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly would be present.'www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9856104/Argentina-says-British-plans-for-Falklands-has-strong-smell-of-oil.html

...It is therefore not surprising that the General Assembly declared in 1970 that the modem prohibition against the acquisition of territory by conquest should not be construed as affecting titles to territory created 'prior to the Charter regime and valid under international law'...

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What Europen individuals? have you not been reading the story?
90% of these are Argentinian ex-pats, they are not European, though they do not seem to mind being represented that way.

How do you expect anyone to trust anything they say, when it clearly comes from a group of people misrepresenting who they are for starters. What else are they misrepresenting? you do know people do not like to have their intelligence insulted.

Thet want talks, dialogue and so called compliance, well they can start by being bloody honest with the people they are talking to.

I expect this is going to go down as a success with the Argentine public, he may even convince some of the poor deluded souls, that at some time in the near future, it is going to happen. He certainly seems to have convinced himself.
A deluded man telling a deluded people what thet want to hear, a million miles away from reality and getting further away, each time he opens his mouth.

For Gott's sake who is going to subsidise now his subversive actiivities?
Either the 'Bolivarian' Embassy or the 'Malvinazi' Embassy?
This spymaster is going to have some real problems of pocket money!

RAUL
Please refer back to yor quote  Went to war with the United Kingdom over the Falklands and lost.
Previously you wrote and I quote  Went to war with Brazil and won ( Brazil lost Uruguay and most of Iguazu Falls)
Prove me a liar if you can
you posted the first quote but I pointed out you lost you repeated the rest but not the first quote

I don't like to be pedantic, but the Ministry of truth says there were 42 deviants attending this event and I count maybe 35 people in this historic photo. That includes Betts, Castro, Timerman, Filmus and Carmona.

Raul (#1118)
'71 GeoffWard2'
'Apparently perfect American idiots inhabit dusty corners of Europe and the Americas!
As you intend to respond if you keep insulting all Argentine and Latin American. God help you.'

Raul,
I think I understand what you are trying to say.

The authors of Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot are all Latin Americans.
Read it and understand.
You will understand it better as:
Maual del Perefecto Idiota Latinoamericano

There is much you can learn about the real Latin America and its political history.
You will not find these truths in your school books.
Geoff.

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Now this is interesting. In the pamphlet produced for this conference on the propaganda site they have set up, it turns out that they are no longer making the claim that a civilian populations was expelled in 1833 :

On 1 January 1833, the United Kingdom expelled the Argentine authorities, the military garrison, and their families, forbidding their return

@129
There's no need to assume, for the purpose of argument, or for any other purpose. It's there in black and white on the cancelleria site, in Spanish and English.

And the point is, that's one lie of long-standing abandoned at last. I guess somebody must have realised, not before time, it couldn't be stood up in any serious forum if anybody serious contested it.

Plenty more to go, of course, but it's a positive evolution in a sorry mess of propaganda. And I am sure we can all look forward now to a correction being issued and apologies being made to those organisations, such as the UN, which may have been inadvertently and unfortunately misled by previous statements from Argentine governments.

I just read the pamphlet and you're right. It clearly does NOT say any settlers were expelled.

So many of the lies in it are easily disproven. You have to wonder why they keep saying them. I feel sorry for the Argentineans. It's hard to imagine a government so blatantly lying to you ALL the time.

#135
Back on the same old treadmill Dany, round and round and round with the same old garbage. Same racist comments as some of your forebears - once a Nazi , always a Nazi.
However, you can't help it - it's in your genes.

Oh, you forgot the bit about kebabs and pyjamas.

Ask your own Muslim population in BA next time you pass the mosque Do you prefer the pyjamas or the full nightshirt - get your order in now as you will not want to be out of fashion.

Of course you don't. That's because there was no invasion. And of course the site doesn't tell the whole story. But it's clear the story it is telling is different from the story that was being told before.

The trouble with this event is that is a planned politically propaganda activity paid for by the Argentine government. It was a closed event & delegates were selected specifically for their bias & especially for their pro-Argentine political views on this issue. Comments on this news article have pointed out that the majority of delegates to the conference are Argentines or associated with Argentina; such obvious propaganda does not help the Argentine position because it is recognized as pure propaganda & also as demonstrably fundamentally dishonest & thus of no value

The facts are the outcome of a free & open debate with a demographically representative audience is far more effective in terms of debating & influencing opinion rather than a pre-arranged outcome and closed set of speakers with no witnesses ; that Argentina stooped to this low tolitarian tactic harms Argentina's credibility internationally. It was a foolish idea that backfired

The Saavedra Lamas Pact antiwar th&e Varela Doctrine are good examples of 1930s political thinking in accord with the aims of League of Nations; obviously in 2013 member states obligations under the UN treaty prevail over any other other treaty, as required by UN Charter Article 103

The Lamas Pact is a principally a latino-iberian pact and binds only signatories; it is not retroactive & does not affect the territorial status quo post bellum of its signatories or non-signatories before 1933. It's political purpose was to stabilize the region in respect of the political destabilization caused by the Peruvian-Bolivian Chaco War of 1932-35; it has no direct bearing on the question of the Falkland Islands

The British exercised their prior sovereignty agreed with the Spanish in 1833 & Argentina acquiesed by ratification of the Arana-Southern Treaty of 1850

Argentina's use of force to resolve its dispute in 1982 is a breach of this pact, & more importantly Articles 1, 2,25, 35 and 73 of the UN Treaty. Argentina lost

#145
You did not answer my question at #144.
What in the way of reparations and how.
How can a hand picked focus group full of Argentinians be taken seriously as representing European opinion. We could have trawled around and filled a similar group of pro -Falkland supporters and that would have been just as one sided.

This is not the only one, but just of number of legal tenets could rely on.
So even accepting Argentines claim that Briton usurped the islands, they still hold the legal sovereignty.

General theory of law and state by Hans Kelsen : translated by Anders Wedberg. p. cm. Originally published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1945

214 THE ELEMENTS OF THE STATE

....Taking possession through military force of the territory of another State against the latter's will is possible, however, without any military resistance on the part of the victim. Provided that a unilateral act of force performed by one State against another is not considered to be war in itself (war being, according to traditional opinion, a contention between two or more States through their armed forces and hence at least a bilateral action) annexation is not only possible in time of war, but also in time of peace. The decisive point is that annexation, that is, taking possession of another State's territory with the intention to acquire it, constitutes acquisition of this territory even without the consent of the State to which the territory previously belonged, if the possession is firmly established. It makes no difference whether the annexation takes place after an occupatio bellica or not.

@162, Fake Argentine groups pretending to be delegations from 18 European countries who were setup by Timerman & are made of Argentines working in Europe. The whole world knows he setup a fake conference with fake support & he got caught out.

Sorry Danny but it was just Propaganda from Argentina, No European country has given Argentina any kind support & no European Country attended his fake conference & no European country singed any statement which is why 'We the Undersigned' was suspiciously blank.